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* InsaneTrollLogic: HaShomer uses this to presuade people to let them guard their fields:
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** HaShomer uses this to presuade people to let them guard their fields:
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* {{Fratbro}}: A skit shows David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi studying together in university in late Ottoman Constantinople. Ben-Zvi makes it very clear they're there to blend into Ottoman politics and promote Zionist ideas among its leadership.
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* {{Fratbro}}: A skit shows David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi studying together in university in late Ottoman Constantinople. Ben-Zvi makes it very clear they're there to blend into Ottoman politics and promote Zionist ideas among its leadership. Ben-Gurion is mostly concerned with partying and making out.
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* PigLatin: It appears (or rather, its Hebrew Equivalent, the Bet language) in a skit where Eliezer Ben-Yehuda chastites Eliezer Zamenhoff for just sticking "-os" at the end of every word in order to make [[UsefulNotes/{{Esperanto}} Esperanto]], while he struggles with actually creating new words for everything wholesale.
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* PigLatin: It appears (or rather, its Hebrew Equivalent, the Bet language) in a skit where Eliezer Ben-Yehuda chastites chastises Eliezer Zamenhoff for just sticking "-os" at the end of every word in order to make [[UsefulNotes/{{Esperanto}} Esperanto]], while he struggles with actually creating new words for everything wholesale.
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* GeniusBonus: A skit shows David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi studying together in university in late Ottoman Constantinople. They're asked what fraternity they're in, and Ben-Zvi responds with "Alif Maksura-Ta Marbutha" – Turkish was written in the Arabic alphabet at the time, and was only latinized by Atatürk.
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* GeniusBonus: A skit shows David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi studying together in university in late Ottoman Constantinople. They're asked what fraternity they're in, and Ben-Zvi responds with "Alif Maksura-Ta Marbutha" – Turkish was written in the Arabic alphabet at the time, and was only latinized by Atatürk.
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* GodwinsLaw: The "Nazi comparisons are hysterical and manipulative" line of argument is invoked ''in Nazi Germany'', with a guy calling Hitler "Nazi" getting panned for ruining the discourse. The skit ends with the actual Hitler approaching the guy and comforting him with "don't mind them. Bunch of fascists."
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* GodwinsLaw: The "Nazi comparisons are hysterical and manipulative" line of argument is invoked ''in Nazi Germany'', with a guy calling the actual Hitler "Nazi" getting panned for ruining the discourse. The skit ends with the actual Hitler approaching the guy and comforting him with "don't mind them. Bunch of fascists."
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** Joseph: "And in my dream..."
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* BaitAndSwitch: Studio executives argue with Steven Spielberg about the very grave tone of his major motion picture featuring mass extermination: [[spoiler: Film/JurassicPark]].
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** Studio executives argue with Steven Spielberg about the very grave tone of his major motion picture featuring mass extermination: [[spoiler: Film/JurassicPark]].
** Studio executives argue with Steven Spielberg about the very grave tone of his major motion picture featuring mass extermination: [[spoiler: Film/JurassicPark]].
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** And when Eliezer Ben-Yehuda walks into his house to find his son Itamar [[HormoneAddledTeenager with a bunch of porno magazines]], he's enraged. The reason? [[spoiler: The magazines are all in Yiddish, [[LanguageDrift and Itamar's suposed to grow in an all-Hebrew environment as part of its revival as a spoken language.]]]]
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* MadLibsCatchphrase: Joseph's dreams all follow the formula "And in my dream... I am a [self-glorifying description of Himself as something] and you around me are [Insulting description of the people around him, beginning with their number]... oh yeah, and you all kneel before me."
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** Joseph's dreams all follow the formula "And in my dream... I am a [self-glorifying description of Himself as something] and you around me are [Insulting description of the people around him, beginning with their number]... oh yeah, and you all kneel before me."
** The High Priest in the Temple of Solomon responds to pilgrims with a "What a coincidence, my son is also called [name of pilgrim]."
** Joseph's dreams all follow the formula "And in my dream... I am a [self-glorifying description of Himself as something] and you around me are [Insulting description of the people around him, beginning with their number]... oh yeah, and you all kneel before me."
** The High Priest in the Temple of Solomon responds to pilgrims with a "What a coincidence, my son is also called [name of pilgrim]."
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* InsaneTrollLogic: HaShomer uses this to presuade people to let them guard their fields:
-->'''Farmer:''' Why would [my Arab guard burn my field]?
-->'''Israel Shochet:''' Well, he's angry!
-->'''Farmer:''' Why is he angry?
-->'''Alexander Zade:''' Well, he's unemployed!
-->'''Farmer:''' Why is he unemployed? He's guaring my field!
-->'''Both Shochet and Zade:''' Not anymore.
-->'''Israel Shochet:''' We're your guards now.
-->'''Farmer:''' Why would [my Arab guard burn my field]?
-->'''Israel Shochet:''' Well, he's angry!
-->'''Farmer:''' Why is he angry?
-->'''Alexander Zade:''' Well, he's unemployed!
-->'''Farmer:''' Why is he unemployed? He's guaring my field!
-->'''Both Shochet and Zade:''' Not anymore.
-->'''Israel Shochet:''' We're your guards now.
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-->'''German-Jewish Woman:''' My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor (for now)! Do you have any idea how this word makes her feel?!
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-->'''German-Jewish Woman:''' My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor (for now)! Do you have any idea how this word makes her feel?!
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** Joseph has two: "And in my dream..."
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* MadLibsCatchphrase: Joseph's dreams all follow the formula "And in my dream... I am a [self-glorifying description of Himself as something] and you around me are [Insulting description of the people around him, beginning with their number]... oh yeah, and you all kneel before me."
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* GratuitousEnglish: Joseph occasionally gives orders to people in English.
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* KillEmAll: Joab ben Zeruiah's solution for everything, as per [[TheBible canon]].
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* AnachronismStew: One of the priests' segments decipts a pilgrim from [[UsefulNotes/Argentina Argentina]]... in 2000 BC.
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* PigLatin: It appears (or rather, its Hebrew Equivalent, the Bet language) in a skit where Eliezer Ben-Yehuda chastites Eliezer Zamenhoff for just sticking "-os" at the end of every word in order to make [[UsefulNotes/{{Esperanto}} Esperanto]], while he struggles with actually creating news word for everything wholesale.
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* PigLatin: It appears (or rather, its Hebrew Equivalent, the Bet language) in a skit where Eliezer Ben-Yehuda chastites Eliezer Zamenhoff for just sticking "-os" at the end of every word in order to make [[UsefulNotes/{{Esperanto}} Esperanto]], while he struggles with actually creating news word new words for everything wholesale.
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-->'''Zamenhoff:''' Ohos, Ya'akovos! Hellos! [beat] Sos, this is my friendos, Ya'akovos. Inventer of the Bet-language...os, and a Billionaireos.
-->'''Ya'akov:''' Hebellobbo. Pleabeased tobo meebeet youbou.
-->'''Ben-Yehuda:''' ...Hebellobbo.
-->'''Ya'akov:''' Hebellobbo. Pleabeased tobo meebeet youbou.
-->'''Ben-Yehuda:''' ...Hebellobbo.
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-->'''Sigmund Freud:''' Mom, can you touch my Dick? I'd like to murder Dad.
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-->'''Sigmund Freud:''' Mom, can you pass the Burgul? I'd like to pour some for Dad.
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-->'''Sigmund Freud:''' Mom, can you pass the Burgul? I'd like to pour some for Dad.
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-->'''Sigmund Freud's Dad:''' So tell me, where did you meet? I'm very horny to- '''curious''' to know.
-->'''Sigmund Freud:'''Mom, can you touch my Dick? I'd like to murder Dad.
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Dad!
-->'''SigmundFreud:''' Mom, can Freud's Dad:''' What do you pass the Burgul? I'd like want from me?! I meant to pour some for Dad.ask Silvia! Let her take off her clothes... answer!
-->'''Sigmund Freud:'''
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-->'''Sigmund
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Three seasons have aired so far, with a fourth in the works. All episodes are [[https://www.youtube.com/user/MEDIAIBA/playlists?shelf_id=16&view=50&sort=dd available on YouTube]] (albeit with no English subtitles). Largely [[NotSafeForWork NSFW]], especially if anyone at your workplace knows Hebrew.
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Three seasons have aired so far, with a fourth in the works. All episodes are [[https://www.youtube.com/user/MEDIAIBA/playlists?shelf_id=16&view=50&sort=dd available on YouTube]] (albeit (an episode with no English subtitles).subtitles can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVCs1YPk1jU here]]). Largely [[NotSafeForWork NSFW]], especially if anyone at your workplace knows Hebrew.
* DepravedBisexual: David finds time for Michal, her brother Jonathan, and probably their father Saul too.
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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Nachmanides in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputation_of_Barcelona Disputation of Barcelona]]. Even though they wanted Maimonides, he manages to hold his own very well and even sways the ([[KangarooCourt Christian]]) crowd in his direction. He is rewarded with expulsion from Spain. (In RealLife, the expulsion happened some two centuries later, but even though Nachmanides was recognized as victor of the debate, they went on to burn the Talmud anyway.)
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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Nachmanides in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputation_of_Barcelona Disputation of Barcelona]]. Even though they wanted Maimonides, he manages to hold his own very well and even sways the ([[KangarooCourt Christian]]) crowd in his direction. He is rewarded with expulsion from Spain. (In [[note]]In RealLife, the expulsion happened some two centuries later, but even though Nachmanides was recognized as victor of the debate, they went on to burn the Talmud anyway.) [[/note]]
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** One sketch describes [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Luria Ha'Ari]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Sali Baba Sali]] meeting at a diner, with Baba Sali demonstrating how effectively he can fake [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything talking to God]].
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: A group of covert post-WWII Nazis plot the ruination of Israel… by making it lose the Eurovision song contest year after year. This is a dig at the Israeli tendency to ascribe defeats in international competitions to political motives and/or anti-Semitism.
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An Israeli sketch comedy satirizing episodes from Jewish history, from the Bible to modern Israel.
The show is notable for its very irreverent tone and political content, pretty much running on RefugeInAudacity and CrossingTheLineTwice. This provoked the ire of various MoralGuardians who initially attempted to ban it, which, of course, only served as [[StreisandEffect free publicity]].
The show employs very specific humor and assumes at least passing familiarity with Jewish and Israeli culture; non-Israelis, even Jewish ones, will probably find it somewhere between confusing and incredibly offensive. On the other hand, it can be a great opportunity to learn a bit on Jewish and Israeli culture, if you are so inclined.
Three seasons have aired so far, with a fourth in the works. All episodes are [[https://www.youtube.com/user/MEDIAIBA/playlists?shelf_id=16&view=50&sort=dd available on YouTube]] (albeit with no English subtitles). Largely [[NotSafeForWork NSFW]], especially if anyone at your workplace knows Hebrew.
!! This show provides examples of:
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Rambam (Maimonides) for the Ramban (Nachmanides). Everybody keeps confusing them and then being disappointed when it’s not the former, who is the more famous one.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: David and Bathsheba to Solomon.
* BaitAndSwitch: Studio executives argue with Steven Spielberg about the very grave tone of his major motion picture featuring mass extermination: [[spoiler: Film/JurassicPark]].
-->'''Executive''' (as Spielberg is leaving): oh, and about SchindlersList? Cut the slapstick.
* BalefulPolymorph: At the end of the Alpinist sketch, a member of the IDF Sorcerer Unit appears and turns the investigating officer into a frog.
* BettyAndVeronica: Rachel and Leah, with Jacob as Archie. Rachel is pure, chaste and loving; Leah is chain-smoking, foul-mouthed and very sexually adventurous.
* CampGay: Joseph and his fabulous technicolor coat.
* {{Catchphrase}}
** Hanna Rovina: "Alas, the woe that has befallen me!"
** Alexander Penn: "I shall never forget how we met one rainy night, man and X, X and man…" (this is a reference to one of his famous poems, the beautiful-as-it-is-controversial [[https://englishwithlinda.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/alexander-penn-translation-confession/ "Confession"]]).
** Moses: "shitty people."
* CorruptChurch: The original priests at the Temple of Solomon, who spend all their time having elaborate barbecues of sacrificial meat and can't care less about their supposed flock.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: The main use for Solomon's… metaphors.
* DividedWeFall: Used for the [[BlackComedy blackest of comedies]] in a sketch about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: About half the show is ran on stealth parodies of contemporary Israeli issues.
* DramaBombFinale: An unusual variety in the third season finale. Nothing dramatic actually happens, but the closing sketch is a montage of various characters reciting David Avidan's heartbreaking existentialist poem "Power of Attorney" [[note]]''Yipuy Koach''. it sounds better in Hebrew[[/note]] with completely straight faces.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Absalom, what with his luscious hair getting him tangled in a tree. He seeks help from two children who keep referring to him as a lady, much to his annoyance.
* EmoTeen: A couple of skits show King Solomon (at this point, Crown Prince Solomon) as a surly, black-clad teenager who writes angsty poetry on how everything is meaningless and insists his name is actually [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes "Ecclesiastes"]].
* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Teen!Solomon insists that his collection of erotic poetry (aka The Song of Songs) is a metaphor for his relationship with God. No one is convinced. (AsYouKnow, this is a joke about an established orthodox interpretation that claims exactly that, which in view of the very explicit nature of the text is somewhat… troubling.)
* EverythingIsRacist: Jewish gangsters Bugsy Siegel and Mayer Lansky apply this against an Italian mob enforcer who comes a-threatening, claiming that every other sentence out of his mouth is anti-Semitic. By the end, he's so flustered and apologetic they easily overpower and kill him.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Nachmanides in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputation_of_Barcelona Disputation of Barcelona]]. Even though they wanted Maimonides, he manages to hold his own very well and even sways the ([[KangarooCourt Christian]]) crowd in his direction. He is rewarded with expulsion from Spain. (In RealLife, the expulsion happened some two centuries later, but even though Nachmanides was recognized as victor of the debate, they went on to burn the Talmud anyway.)
* FreudianSlip: a skit starring Sigmund Freud is built on this exclusively.
* GermanicDepressives: invoked in the Eurovision Nazis skit.
-->'''Nazi Leader:''' It’s good to see everyone here again.
-->'''Nazi 1:''' *nods*
-->'''Nazi 2:''' *nods, smiles slightly*
-->'''Nazi 3:''' *nods*
-->'''Nazi Leader:''' Well, enough with all those emotional outpourings!
* GodwinsLaw: The "Nazi comparisons are hysterical and manipulative" line of argument is invoked ''in Nazi Germany'', with a guy calling Hitler "Nazi" getting panned for ruining the discourse. The skit ends with the actual Hitler approaching the guy and comforting him with "don't mind them. Bunch of fascists."
-->'''German-Jewish Woman:''' My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor (for now)! Do you have any idea how this word makes her feel?!
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Hitler's very first memory is of a bunch of people popping out of time machines to try and kill him, "but I was such a cute baby…"
* HoYay: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugot The Zugot]] (“couples”) sages are presented as actual couples. Two of them go to a swinger party where they get to debate Torah with other sages.
-->'''Shammai''' (after the long-time debate partner of Hillel the Elder storms out in jealous rage): Lucky we didn’t tell him we had sex.
* KillEmAll: Joab ben Zeruiah's solution for everything, as per [[TheBible canon]].
* LargeHam: Famous stage actress Hanna Rovina [[MethodActing Stanislavskis]] her way through a variety of everyday situations such as going to the doctor and ordering food at a café.
* LoveDodecahedron: The Nili espionage network. Yosef Lishansky loves Sarah Aaronsohn, who loves Avshalom Feinberg, who loves Rivka Aaronsohn… they're so busy bickering about it that the resistance efforts completely fall apart (somewhat TruthInTelevision, at least according to the gossip of the time).
* MildlyMilitary: The military music bands. Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan isn't too happy about this and decides to disband them. When they resist, he shoots them (all TruthInTelevision except the shooting part).
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Hasamba, a fictional group of heroic children who fought for the country in its early days, had their headquarters in a Tel Aviv park that in RealLife was a well-known meeting spot for covert homosexuals. Misunderstandings ensue.
-->'''Closeted Gay:''' So what's the plan?
-->'''Hasamba Commander:''' We’re going to screw the Arabs!
-->'''Closeted Gay:''' This night is already turning out to be more than I expected…
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The (bafflingly real) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpinist_Unit IDF Alpinist Unit]].
* TheScottishTrope: In a parody of "That’s Not My Name" by the Ting Tings, God complains about no one ever using His real name (it is, as Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian taught us, blasphemous to pronounce). He starts to say it at the end of the song, but then disappears.
* SexyWhateverOutfit: A sketch about Esther accusing Mordechai of trying to prostitute her to the Persian king ends with him telling her that girls will dress as her for Purim for generations to come.
-->'''Esther:''' What, they'll dress like prostitutes?
-->'''Mordechai:''' Only in high school.
* ShellShockedVeteran: a few.
** Yafa Yarkoni, "The Singer of Wars", tries to do a children's songs cassette but the gory images just keep resurfacing.
** Fistuk, the hero of a popular children’s show from the 80's, returns home in a bit of a state after witnessing the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
** An anonymous Jew who participated in the slaughter of Persians at the end of the Book of Esther is haunted by the images. He tries to impress the awfulness of the situation upon his fellow Jews, who ignore him to celebrate the first-ever Purim.
* ShoutOut
** One of the priests' segments ends with a homage to the infamous [[VomitIndiscretionShot Mr. Creosote sequence]] from Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife. They do eat a lot, those priests.
** A sketch showing Marcel Marceau fooling Nazis with his pantomime routine ends with them screaming "we should have [[{{Literature/Discworld}} killed all the mimes]] when he had a chance!"
** In the Fistuk in Sabra and Shatila skit, Fistuk fails to explain the horrors he'd witnessed to his sidekick Rega, so he decides to use an educational cartoon. Said cartoon is Animation/WaltzWithBashir.
* SiblingYinYang: Leah and Rachel again.
* StarvingArtist: The Kasit group of poets (Alterman, Shlonsky, Penn) are hardly starving, but they cheerfully and repeatedly refuse to pay for food, claiming that they don’t have a cent.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: A couple of disciples approach [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Mendel_Schneerson the Lubavitcher]] and inquire whether he really is TheMessiah. His answer is… ambiguous.
-->'''The Lubavitcher:''' You should definitely not hang posters all over town, sized 20X30 meters, saying "Welcome Our King the Messiah" with my photo, yes? Standing like this, half-profile, with my hand like this (raises his hand). Don't take pictures. Now. (Disciple takes picture) Don't take pictures.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Crop up a lot, naturally.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: A group of covert post-WWII Nazis plot the ruination of Israel… by making it lose the Eurovision song contest year after year. This is a dig at the Israeli tendency to ascribe defeats in international competitions to political motives and/or anti-Semitism.
The show is notable for its very irreverent tone and political content, pretty much running on RefugeInAudacity and CrossingTheLineTwice. This provoked the ire of various MoralGuardians who initially attempted to ban it, which, of course, only served as [[StreisandEffect free publicity]].
The show employs very specific humor and assumes at least passing familiarity with Jewish and Israeli culture; non-Israelis, even Jewish ones, will probably find it somewhere between confusing and incredibly offensive. On the other hand, it can be a great opportunity to learn a bit on Jewish and Israeli culture, if you are so inclined.
Three seasons have aired so far, with a fourth in the works. All episodes are [[https://www.youtube.com/user/MEDIAIBA/playlists?shelf_id=16&view=50&sort=dd available on YouTube]] (albeit with no English subtitles). Largely [[NotSafeForWork NSFW]], especially if anyone at your workplace knows Hebrew.
!! This show provides examples of:
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Rambam (Maimonides) for the Ramban (Nachmanides). Everybody keeps confusing them and then being disappointed when it’s not the former, who is the more famous one.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: David and Bathsheba to Solomon.
* BaitAndSwitch: Studio executives argue with Steven Spielberg about the very grave tone of his major motion picture featuring mass extermination: [[spoiler: Film/JurassicPark]].
-->'''Executive''' (as Spielberg is leaving): oh, and about SchindlersList? Cut the slapstick.
* BalefulPolymorph: At the end of the Alpinist sketch, a member of the IDF Sorcerer Unit appears and turns the investigating officer into a frog.
* BettyAndVeronica: Rachel and Leah, with Jacob as Archie. Rachel is pure, chaste and loving; Leah is chain-smoking, foul-mouthed and very sexually adventurous.
* CampGay: Joseph and his fabulous technicolor coat.
* {{Catchphrase}}
** Hanna Rovina: "Alas, the woe that has befallen me!"
** Alexander Penn: "I shall never forget how we met one rainy night, man and X, X and man…" (this is a reference to one of his famous poems, the beautiful-as-it-is-controversial [[https://englishwithlinda.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/alexander-penn-translation-confession/ "Confession"]]).
** Moses: "shitty people."
* CorruptChurch: The original priests at the Temple of Solomon, who spend all their time having elaborate barbecues of sacrificial meat and can't care less about their supposed flock.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: The main use for Solomon's… metaphors.
* DividedWeFall: Used for the [[BlackComedy blackest of comedies]] in a sketch about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: About half the show is ran on stealth parodies of contemporary Israeli issues.
* DramaBombFinale: An unusual variety in the third season finale. Nothing dramatic actually happens, but the closing sketch is a montage of various characters reciting David Avidan's heartbreaking existentialist poem "Power of Attorney" [[note]]''Yipuy Koach''. it sounds better in Hebrew[[/note]] with completely straight faces.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Absalom, what with his luscious hair getting him tangled in a tree. He seeks help from two children who keep referring to him as a lady, much to his annoyance.
* EmoTeen: A couple of skits show King Solomon (at this point, Crown Prince Solomon) as a surly, black-clad teenager who writes angsty poetry on how everything is meaningless and insists his name is actually [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes "Ecclesiastes"]].
* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Teen!Solomon insists that his collection of erotic poetry (aka The Song of Songs) is a metaphor for his relationship with God. No one is convinced. (AsYouKnow, this is a joke about an established orthodox interpretation that claims exactly that, which in view of the very explicit nature of the text is somewhat… troubling.)
* EverythingIsRacist: Jewish gangsters Bugsy Siegel and Mayer Lansky apply this against an Italian mob enforcer who comes a-threatening, claiming that every other sentence out of his mouth is anti-Semitic. By the end, he's so flustered and apologetic they easily overpower and kill him.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Nachmanides in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputation_of_Barcelona Disputation of Barcelona]]. Even though they wanted Maimonides, he manages to hold his own very well and even sways the ([[KangarooCourt Christian]]) crowd in his direction. He is rewarded with expulsion from Spain. (In RealLife, the expulsion happened some two centuries later, but even though Nachmanides was recognized as victor of the debate, they went on to burn the Talmud anyway.)
* FreudianSlip: a skit starring Sigmund Freud is built on this exclusively.
* GermanicDepressives: invoked in the Eurovision Nazis skit.
-->'''Nazi Leader:''' It’s good to see everyone here again.
-->'''Nazi 1:''' *nods*
-->'''Nazi 2:''' *nods, smiles slightly*
-->'''Nazi 3:''' *nods*
-->'''Nazi Leader:''' Well, enough with all those emotional outpourings!
* GodwinsLaw: The "Nazi comparisons are hysterical and manipulative" line of argument is invoked ''in Nazi Germany'', with a guy calling Hitler "Nazi" getting panned for ruining the discourse. The skit ends with the actual Hitler approaching the guy and comforting him with "don't mind them. Bunch of fascists."
-->'''German-Jewish Woman:''' My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor (for now)! Do you have any idea how this word makes her feel?!
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Hitler's very first memory is of a bunch of people popping out of time machines to try and kill him, "but I was such a cute baby…"
* HoYay: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugot The Zugot]] (“couples”) sages are presented as actual couples. Two of them go to a swinger party where they get to debate Torah with other sages.
-->'''Shammai''' (after the long-time debate partner of Hillel the Elder storms out in jealous rage): Lucky we didn’t tell him we had sex.
* KillEmAll: Joab ben Zeruiah's solution for everything, as per [[TheBible canon]].
* LargeHam: Famous stage actress Hanna Rovina [[MethodActing Stanislavskis]] her way through a variety of everyday situations such as going to the doctor and ordering food at a café.
* LoveDodecahedron: The Nili espionage network. Yosef Lishansky loves Sarah Aaronsohn, who loves Avshalom Feinberg, who loves Rivka Aaronsohn… they're so busy bickering about it that the resistance efforts completely fall apart (somewhat TruthInTelevision, at least according to the gossip of the time).
* MildlyMilitary: The military music bands. Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan isn't too happy about this and decides to disband them. When they resist, he shoots them (all TruthInTelevision except the shooting part).
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Hasamba, a fictional group of heroic children who fought for the country in its early days, had their headquarters in a Tel Aviv park that in RealLife was a well-known meeting spot for covert homosexuals. Misunderstandings ensue.
-->'''Closeted Gay:''' So what's the plan?
-->'''Hasamba Commander:''' We’re going to screw the Arabs!
-->'''Closeted Gay:''' This night is already turning out to be more than I expected…
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The (bafflingly real) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpinist_Unit IDF Alpinist Unit]].
* TheScottishTrope: In a parody of "That’s Not My Name" by the Ting Tings, God complains about no one ever using His real name (it is, as Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian taught us, blasphemous to pronounce). He starts to say it at the end of the song, but then disappears.
* SexyWhateverOutfit: A sketch about Esther accusing Mordechai of trying to prostitute her to the Persian king ends with him telling her that girls will dress as her for Purim for generations to come.
-->'''Esther:''' What, they'll dress like prostitutes?
-->'''Mordechai:''' Only in high school.
* ShellShockedVeteran: a few.
** Yafa Yarkoni, "The Singer of Wars", tries to do a children's songs cassette but the gory images just keep resurfacing.
** Fistuk, the hero of a popular children’s show from the 80's, returns home in a bit of a state after witnessing the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
** An anonymous Jew who participated in the slaughter of Persians at the end of the Book of Esther is haunted by the images. He tries to impress the awfulness of the situation upon his fellow Jews, who ignore him to celebrate the first-ever Purim.
* ShoutOut
** One of the priests' segments ends with a homage to the infamous [[VomitIndiscretionShot Mr. Creosote sequence]] from Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife. They do eat a lot, those priests.
** A sketch showing Marcel Marceau fooling Nazis with his pantomime routine ends with them screaming "we should have [[{{Literature/Discworld}} killed all the mimes]] when he had a chance!"
** In the Fistuk in Sabra and Shatila skit, Fistuk fails to explain the horrors he'd witnessed to his sidekick Rega, so he decides to use an educational cartoon. Said cartoon is Animation/WaltzWithBashir.
* SiblingYinYang: Leah and Rachel again.
* StarvingArtist: The Kasit group of poets (Alterman, Shlonsky, Penn) are hardly starving, but they cheerfully and repeatedly refuse to pay for food, claiming that they don’t have a cent.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: A couple of disciples approach [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Mendel_Schneerson the Lubavitcher]] and inquire whether he really is TheMessiah. His answer is… ambiguous.
-->'''The Lubavitcher:''' You should definitely not hang posters all over town, sized 20X30 meters, saying "Welcome Our King the Messiah" with my photo, yes? Standing like this, half-profile, with my hand like this (raises his hand). Don't take pictures. Now. (Disciple takes picture) Don't take pictures.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Crop up a lot, naturally.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: A group of covert post-WWII Nazis plot the ruination of Israel… by making it lose the Eurovision song contest year after year. This is a dig at the Israeli tendency to ascribe defeats in international competitions to political motives and/or anti-Semitism.
